This patch provides the back end support for equal-cost multi-path

(ECMP) for both IPv4 and IPv6. Previously, multipath route insertion
is disallowed. For example,

	route add -net 192.103.54.0/24 10.9.44.1
	route add -net 192.103.54.0/24 10.9.44.2

The second route insertion will trigger an error message of
"add net 192.103.54.0/24: gateway 10.2.5.2: route already in table"

Multiple default routes can also be inserted. Here is the netstat
output:

default		10.2.5.1	UGS	0	3074	bge0 =>
default		10.2.5.2	UGS	0	0	bge0

When multipath routes exist, the "route delete" command requires
a specific gateway to be specified or else an error message would
be displayed. For example,

	route delete default

would fail and trigger the following error message:

"route: writing to routing socket: No such process"
"delete net default: not in table"

On the other hand,

	route delete default 10.2.5.2

would be successful: "delete net default: gateway 10.2.5.2"

One does not have to specify a gateway if there is only a single
route for a particular destination.

I need to perform more testings on address aliases and multiple
interfaces that have the same IP prefixes. This patch as it
stands today is not yet ready for prime time. Therefore, the ECMP
code fragments are fully guarded by the RADIX_MPATH macro.
Include the "options  RADIX_MPATH" in the kernel configuration
to enable this feature.

Reviewed by:	robert, sam, gnn, julian, kmacy

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sys/net/radix.h b/sys/net/radix.h
index ca53095..376fdda 100644
--- a/sys/net/radix.h
+++ b/sys/net/radix.h
@@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ struct radix_node_head {
 	void	(*rnh_close)	/* do something when the last ref drops */
 		(struct radix_node *rn, struct radix_node_head *head);
 	struct	radix_node rnh_nodes[3];	/* empty tree for common case */
+	int	rnh_multipath;			/* multipath capable ? */
 #ifdef _KERNEL
 	struct	mtx rnh_mtx;			/* locks entire radix tree */
 #endif